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RIPTA says it paid hackers $170K in ransom money after massive data breach

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Dissent

ABC6 reports: The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority said Thursday it paid hackers $170,000 in ransom money after a massive data breach in August. The hack exposed the names, birth dates, and social security numbers of thousands of state employees, some of which didn’t even work for the agency. Read more at ABC6. The incident, which affected 22,000…

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SuperCare Health Sued After Data Breach

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Dissent

  The gap from the disclosure of a data breach to the filing of a potential class-action lawsuit is often a matter of weeks (or less), although a lot of lawsuits are dismissed for lack of Article III standing (see a 2021 review of data breach litigation here). In March, in-home respiratory care provider SuperCare…

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About 1,700 MetroHealth patients affected by data breach

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Dissent

Jordan Unger reports: The MetroHealth System confirmed Wednesday that about 1,700 patients were affected by an accidental data breach. According to MetroHealth, the issue occurred during an upgrade to their electronic medical record system on Nov. 13. When MetroHealth sent out records to some of their patients, the name, date of service and provider name of…

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T-Mobile Tried To Pay Hackers To Buy Leaked Customer Data Back

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Dissent

Abhishek Mishra reports on one of the revelations in court filings related to the arrest of the owner of RaidForums and the takedown of the forum: T-Mobile, one of the largest phone carriers in the U.S., tried to pay the hackers to get back its customer data leaked in a previous breach. The move backfired…

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Update: No sensitive data taken during District 518 cybersecurity breach

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Dissent

On March 8, Kari Lucin at The Globe reported that District 518 in Minnesota had confirmed a data breach involving an employee’s email account, but didn’t anticipate a big problem. Yesterday, Lucin followed up with the district’s confirmation that no personal information or data had been taken or used in the February incident. An investigation…

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LockBit ransomware gang lurked in a U.S. gov network for months

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports: A regional U.S. government agency compromised with LockBit ransomware had the threat actor in its network for at least five months before the payload was deployed, security researchers found. Logs retrieved from the compromised machines showed that two threat groups had compromised them and were engaged in reconnaissance and remote access operations….

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